Word: pleasantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring training. The optimism of the next few days--Joe Rudi can probably shag flies in the Florida sun as well as or better than Freddie Lynn; after all, he's been doing it longer--will be like a March afternoon spent in the stands at Chain-O-Lakes--pleasant, but not very meaningful...
...around, chatting with them, tossing knowing asides into the audience, and generally acting urbane and oh-so-witty. Ian Richardson's letter- and paragraph-perfect performance--even his pinstripes seem to have raised eyebrows--can't entirely excuse Albee's officiousness in creating such a role. It's never pleasant to be talked down to; but when there's this character on stage telling you what to pay attention to, whom to watch carefully, you begin to wish the playwright had been a bit less clever...
Metrinko passed the next two months in more pleasant quarters: a room in a onetime art gallery. He never seriously considered trying to escape, since even when he was allowed to take a stroll in the courtyard he was surrounded by 20 or more armed guards. Says Metrinko ruefully: "It was like a grade-B movie, but I'm not James Cagney." The Ayatullah Khomeini's son Seyyed Ahmed talked to the hostages for half an hour one day. Metrinko complained to him that the food consisted of "rice and grease" and that he was not allowed...
...After a pleasant and uneventful trip down to New York City, land of dreams and the midnight bagel, the Hoopsters just as pleasantly and uneventfully dispatched an inferior Barnard squad 75-31, beefing up their season's record to 5-11. When it rains, it pours, particularly for the cagers...
Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin called McCabe's performance "a pleasant surprise," adding that he made the decision to put the 6-ft., 10-in. player into the game early in the first half because of the sophomore center's strong performance last weekend against Cornell's Alex Reynolds...